7/01/2009 @ 9:00PM

In Pictures: How To Protect Your Online Reputation

Sign up with Social Networking Sites

Join social networks as you hear about them. Setting up your profile as soon as possible helps ensure that you won’t be mistaken for someone else. Andy Beal, co-author of Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online, says networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and LinkedIn rank highly in Google searches. That means that content that you control can edge out any bad search results attached to your name.